There has been a public outcry after the alleged discrimination of a disabled man, Johan Venter, by a bus company. Lydia Pretorius…at the Department of Women, Children and People with Disabilities…[s]aid guide dogs were allowed on buses and they were supposed to sit next to their owner…[I]nstitutions carried the responsibility to educate as well as to make their service providers and users aware of their rights…[The] spokesperson [of the South African Human Rights Commission] said not allowing a visually impaired person to get onto a bus with a guide dog that helped him or her to be independent, was “really a human rights violation and it is a punishable offence”. Venter felt that he has been discriminated against and said there are a number of students in wheelchairs who make use of the buses and complain about the service they were being offered…